BOUGHT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 I used to ride in the army but I've never bought a horse.
2 He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.
3 A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap.
4 Michaelis didn't see anything odd in that and he gave Wilson a dozen reasons why his wife might have bought the dog leash.
5 He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.
6 Evidently he lived in this vicinity for he told me that he had just bought a hydroplane and was going to try it out in the morning.
7 He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths so that he could "come over" some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
8 At the news-stand she bought a copy of "Town Tattle" and a moving-picture magazine and, in the station drug store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume.
9 Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine; the wicker of the settee squeaked fashionably as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth.
10 His movements--he was on foot all the time--were afterward traced to Port Roosevelt and then to Gad's Hill where he bought a sandwich that he didn't eat and a cup of coffee.
11 I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.